Re: Setting up EMC

["William Scalione" <wscalione-at-nc.rr.com>]

Terry,

First off, I'm far from an expert here, but some things we can try.

What version are you running? BDI V.?

One thing you should try is to start EMC from the command line,
this will let you see any error codes you are recieving, and why 
EMC will not start up. Do this by clicking on the icon of the 
computer monitor with the shell in front of it. That will open a
command line type window. Type in the following, without the 
quotes of course, and hit enter.

"cd /usr/local/emc"          This will change to the emc directory

"./emc.run"                      Note the dot slash. 

or

"./generic.run"

Report back with any error messages

Your settings will be changed in the emc.ini file or the generic.ini
file depending on what run file you use to start emc. You can access
these in the emc directory using the file manager. click on the ini file
you wish to edit and it should open an editor window. Your steps per
inch will be under the variables "input scale". More on that after we get
you up and running or you can check out the handbook (a work in 
progress) at www.linuxcnc.org 

Bill



> 
> Can I get the answers or where can I find the answers to the questions?
> I am ready to take the next steps. I have Linux setup on a 266
> computer, can get to the desk top of Linux, that has several EMC Icons
> on it there is EMC?Generic, EMC-mini, EMC-run and EMC-sim. When I
> click on EMC-sim I get a nice control panel with big old numbers on
> it, from there I can click on estop, spindle on and open file. I can
> make the numbers move. The rest of the EMC--- Icons do nothing. Some
> more of the things that I can do is open in root, get to a file
> manager click on open file. Then on to ?usr?, then ?local?, then ?EMC?
> then there is all of the EMC files that I know that I need to make
> some changes to, (here it is). How and which ones do I make changes to. 
> 
> I have CNC-Pro on another computer that I want to replace with EMC; I
> have the setting from cnc-pro. They are X 4000 steps per inch, Y 4000
> steps per inch, Z 4000 steps per inch, max velocity inch per minuets
> X-75, Y-75, Z?30, Max Acceleration foot per second squared 8.3333. I
> have fast jog, X-10, Y-10, Z-8, slow jog X-5, Y-5, Z-4 then debounce
> distance in all axis?s .020 per inch.
> 
> The only thing here that is set in stone is the step per inch. 
> 
> This is going to run a bench top like mill that I have been working on
> for a long time. The way it is set up now is with stepper motors, I
> have put linear encoders on the mill so after I get it running in
> steppermode I am planning on changing it to use the encoders.
>   
> I know that I have asked a lot with this message but it is info that I
> need to make this project work and the people on this site have been
> very helpful.
> Thank you for all your time.
> Terry Twombly
> ttwombly-at-cyonisp.net  
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